Boing Boing Sucks

I hear where this is com­ing from. I dis­agree that the DRM/GPS stuff is bor­ing, but Dis­ney sucks (I can’t under­stand why they can’t see that, and some­times I fan­ta­size that they’re just a bunch of cor­po­rate pup­pets), and you’re right on about the politics…

its 2009 and boing­bo­ing still sucks.

Yeah screw u boing

Stu­pid cracka bitch. He dont get dis.

boing­bo­ing removed my com­ment even though it was not offen­sive or obscene in any way. they removed it because it pointed out how stu­pid their con­test was.
fuck them. cor­po­rate whores.

i checked and it wasn’t just my com­ment that got removed:
here is my coment:
monkeyboy77 | Octo­ber 22, 2009 1:13 AM | Reply
I agree with Sir­Wom­pus. The Altoids flash­light is in no way wor­thy of any award.
Him win­ning the con­test shows they weren’t very good at get­ting peo­ple to enter their contest.

A flash­light? Seri­ously? a flash­light?
Come on now, they have to be kick­ing them­selves for not hav­ing enough real sub­mis­sions and hav­ing to give an award to a kid for mak­ing a flashlight.

Take a look at the other win­ners to get an idea of why they had to give an award (7th place) for a flash­light.
http://digitalopen.org/

A quick search shows that mak­ing a flash­light is expected from 4th graders. (9 and 10 year olds)
http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=4966&page=68
(search the page for “flash­light”)
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and here is another com­ment after mine that they removed:

Author Pro­file Page Zoopy­Funk | Octo­ber 22, 2009 7:48 AM |

This com­ment will self-destruct in …

To quote the dis­claimer text just above the com­ment box…“Please don’t cuss or harass other commenters!”

Its now clear who that applies to, and who it doesn’t.

To cel­e­brate my last com­ment evar on BB (due to Xeni’s calous com­ment above, just can’t take the BBBull­shit treat­ment of free speech any­more) I must warn you all, you just can’t speak your mind. A few of you are in dan­ger­ous waters, and should expect a harsh rep­ri­mand, at the very least! You just can’t express your feel­ings. Don’t you all get it? Its glow­ing com­pli­ments only, people!

I and a great num­ber of my compatriots)(and, btw, we were all long time read­ers, some from the zine era) had quite a brew ha ha last night to dis­cuss some­thing that has been both­er­ing us for some time. The environment/atmosphere here has just become something…well…unwonderful(you all noticed that BB no longer claims to be “a direc­tory of won­der­ful things’, because it insults its most loyal viewers.

Its just far far too easy to take our clicks elsewhere.

Seacrest out.

it’s 2009 and they still suck. BB Newbs like me don’t even know what the site was like when it was good (was it ever?). These days they are just re-blogging shit I saw on other sites 4 days ago. And that Xeni whore is just obnoxious.

I stopped read­ing BB about a year ago due to all of the above PLUS all of the recent sex­ism spilling off their pages. I read BB every morn­ing for years, then every month or two, and now, basi­cally, not at all.

I really miss the old BB. What, there’s noth­ing else won­der­ful under the sun any­more? I don’t believe it for a second.

Yep. Still sucks. It’s a pity because boing used to be great(a long time ago). Now it’s just:
1. girls with ukeleles(or some other recent fetish)
2.crap that gets posted because it fits with the pol­i­tics of the author. If Glenn Beck was pro-creative com­mons boing would post how fan­tas­tic his ideas are.
3. arti­cles about how fan­tas­tic x or y prod­uct is, because they obvi­ously get a reduc­tion if they write a pos­i­tive article.

2010 and the Suck con­tin­ues (for a lit­tle while) .….

2010 and boing­bo­ing sucks still. We need to make sure these asses go broke.

Where to start with BB. I get tired of the we’re so cool don’t you want to be like us atti­tude. We’re anti-establishment but we’ll have Amex ads. We’ll cen­sor com­ments but we’re free speech. We’ll write crap books like World’s Worst but we’ll expose ripoffs from oth­ers. Most of their arti­cles are just links to oth­ers with some com­ments and you get paid for this? Who cares what can be sol­dered to what. I mean how many nor­mal peo­ple have the skills for this? Shilling prod­ucts. Sheesh hypocrisy mixed with narcissism.

BB was a great site back in the early days, lots of orig­i­nal con­tent. Now­days it seems to be more watered down with con­tent and with more ads. Plus, admins seem to not explain why they found someone’s post offen­sive. Yet, they allow sex­ist posts and obvi­ous troll posts.

Fuck BB and their ad-whoring atti­tude to their community.

I think the main prob­lem for BB is com­pe­ti­tion. All the hip­ster mar­ket­ing douch­bag­gi­ness aside, their site used to actu­ally have orig­i­nal con­tent. Now it’s pretty much like read­ing a news­pa­per — shit that was already on a hand­ful of the major aggre­ga­tors 2–3 days ago.

And Xeni … good lord .… please, just make it stop.